1. “Don’t write merely to be understood. Write
so that you cannot possibly be
misunderstood.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

2. • Words, when well chosen, have so
great a force in them that a
description often gives us more lively
ideas than the sight of things
themselves. —Joseph Addison, The
Spectator No. 416.

4. • Men suppose their reason has
command over their words; still it
happens that words in return
exercise authority on reason. —
Francis Bacon.

5. • A blow with a word strikes deeper
than a blow with a sword. —Robert
Burton, The anatomy of melancholy
I.2.4.4.

6. • Give me the right word and the right
accent and I will move the world. —
Joseph Conrad, A personal record.
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7. • He who wants to persuade should put
his trust, not in the right argument, but
in the right word. The power of sound
has always been greater than the
power of sense. —Joseph Conrad, A
personal record.
• Language is not only the vehicle of
thought, it is a great and efficient
instrument in thinking. —Sir H. Davy.

8. • Words ... so innocent and powerless
as they are, as standing in a
dictionary, how potent for good and
evil they become, in the hands of
one who knows how to combine
them! —Nathaniel Hawthorne,
American Notebooks, 1841-1852.

9. • Expression is the dress of thought, and still
Appears more decent as more suitable.
A vile Conceit in pompous words express'd
Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd
For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort,
As sev'ral garbs with country, town, and
court.
Some by old words to fame have made
pretence,
Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their
sense.
—Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
(1711)